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National Neonatal Audit Programme catheter Stay/episode + - The wrong use of episodic data days

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National Neonatal Audit Programme catheter Stay/episode days The correct use of ad hoc data

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National Neonatal Audit Programme Outliers The National Clinical Audit Advisory Group (NCAAG) has requested that national audits identify outliers.

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National Neonatal Audit Programme Outliers NNAP will identify outliers starting with the 2011 report. Detection of potential outliers NNAP will create funnel plots of outcomes and approach units whose performance is >2 SDs below the mean with an ‘alert’ and those >3 SDs below the mean with an ‘alarm’. NNAP may also approach units >2 SDs above the mean to check their data, and to learn from their good practice.

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National Neonatal Audit Programme Some audit measures may be more robust than others, and these will be used for the detection of outliers: 1.Measurement of temperature within an hour of birth in babies <28 +6 weeks 2.First ROP screening within one week of the window designated by national guidelines 3.Breast milk feeding at discharge home for babies who stay in one unit all the time 4.First consultation with parents within 24 hours of a baby’s admission

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National Neonatal Audit Programme Funnel plots will show the percentage of babies for whom the audit standard is achieved in each NNU. For each audit standard, some units will fall 2 SDs below the mean on a purely statistical basis. As there are 4 audit standards, individual units will fall >2 SDs below the national mean 0 to 4 times. NNAP will approach those under-performing on 4 standards, and possibly some underperforming on 3 standards if their performance raised alarms (>3 SD below mean) in any of the 4 individual audit standards. Using this approach, NNAP expects that those units with a broad range of difficulties will be recognised and helped first.

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National Neonatal Audit Programme Management of a potential outlier: